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hvd.32044089408447-02	nan	The Dial  v.07 (1886-87)	1887		.txt	text/plain	51235	4423	78	considerable length an interesting account of This brings to mind a characteristic anecdote, his purchase in London of the fine lot of which I often heard Mr. C. R. Leslie, the Royal Nineveh Marbles which now rest in the rooms Academician, relate of his two friends, Mr. Lenox of the New York Historical Society, of his and Mr. Turner, his brother Academician, Mr. Leslie, about 1847 I think, received a letter cover- sending them to Boston, of their enthusiastic ing a sight draft on Barings, requesting him to be reception by the learned men and the “ Beacon so good as to purchase of his friend Mr. Turner the Streeters, of the renewed efforts to pass round best picture by him he could get for the money, “that old Boston hat,” of its return empty, giving directions for the shipment to New York. On receiving this curt and scarcely courteous my friend Mr. C. H. Coote, of the map department letter, Mr. Leslie said he resolved thenceforward to of the British Museum, and lent it to him for the abstain from executing responsible commissions for reduced fac-simile in his article on GLOBES in the friends.	cache/hvd.32044089408447-02.txt	txt/hvd.32044089408447-02.txt